The Hamptons Summer Rental Crowd Is Looking Farther East

Brokers and landlords hoping to kickstart this season’s leasing
activity in the Hamptons are seeing renters showing a preference
for spots further east, the New
York Post reported.

Ernie Cervi, executive managing director of the Corcoran Group’s
Bridgehampton office, told the Post that renters were interested
in places such as Amagansett and Montauk. “There is new life to
those areas,” Cervi said, “so it’s attracting another group of
people.”

Indeed, a slew of happening late-night venues have opened in
Montauk over the last few years, including the Surf Lodge,
Ruschmeyer’s and the Sloppy Tuna, which have attracted the young,
rich and restless set. Amaganset’s proximity to Montauk’s
nightlife, Jeff Steinhorst, vice president of Nest Seekers
International, told the Post, was boosting its appeal. “We have
three calls for Amagansett for every one for another area,” he
said.

Houses on the beach and those located in the villages continue to
carry serious cachet, Cornelia Dodge, a broker with Halstead
Property, told the Post. All the stuff that’s in the village,
people love. They can walk to town, walk to dinner. Anything
within walking distance goes first,”

The rental season has already begun, brokers say, and has been
helped by the fallout from Hurricane Sandy, which damaged many
other beaches close to New York City but left the Hamptons in
relatively good shape. Last week, a $30 million 4.3 acre
estate, Southhampton’s first listing post-Sandy, went into
contract. “We’re getting a lot more people because of Sandy,”
Cervi said. “People from other beach communities, from Long
Beach, from New Jersey, they’re out to test-drive the Hamptons.”
[NYP] –Hiten Samtani